johnswamps

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by johnswamps 16y ago
There's a bunch of "hidden features of X" on stackoverflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22hidden%20features%22&#3... ) if you liked this one
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Can anyone that went to this last year comment on the conference?
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by johnswamps 16y ago
It's incredibly useful for ordering a lot of things on Amazon. Prime is quite devious, it's completely changed the way I use Amazon and has dramatically increased the amount of money I spend there. To wit: 1. I now order many things I would
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by johnswamps 16y ago
> and vastly less respect when he late goes to try to do his own startup. Can you elaborate on this?
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by johnswamps 16y ago
It depends on how close of a shave you want. If you simply want to be presentable you can do one quick pass "with the grain", but if you want a perfectly smooth shave you can do several passes (perpendicular and against the grain). If I'm i
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by johnswamps 16y ago
The book was written 20 years ago, before the C99 spec was released. main() was acceptable but discouraged in C89, which is why -Wall (or more precisely -Wimplicit-int) displays a warning. It's disallowed by the C99 spec and will always giv
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by johnswamps 16y ago
The department usually matriculates a few students each year that aren't traditional applicants (great grades, research, recommendations, etc.). For example, there are a few students with little to no CS experience at all. The odds are defi
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by johnswamps 16y ago
> why, may I ask, do you say "besides starting a company"? Because I'm looking for options that I'm not aware of. I didn't say I wasn't considering it.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Anyone here have suggestions on what to do with excess money at that age besides starting a company? I'm 22 and use my excess money to max out my roth ira every year and keep the rest in the bank, but if there's someway to "invest in myself
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by johnswamps 16y ago
He talks about both the nobel prize and the national academy of sciences in this short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j9TmDi0vNY
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I would suggest buying a french press and grinder instead.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
FWIW pg says he doesn't kill threads critical of yc companies. Here's his response after he killed a thread about wakemate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1358627 (I'm not saying that applies here, it might have been flagged by users
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Good catch, fixed.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
As plain text: # The fastest person to solve this will win our entire catalog bThvW3JKYz16bXpUWDIufkl2OllseC4maV1gMjtVYXNtb2RyZ3czbkQzQDtn ZnRdMVZuZkIqVTJpIGlxa2xubkAoaTRueGdQaGN0YyRjTGN1WGlUbzF5VU5q cz50KmRwZXlncGN0dA== I adde
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I'm not sure if your question was rhetorical or not (I suspect it was), but for the record, it's a basic templating system for javascript and java like what most web frameworks have. You write a template with parameters ("hello $name") and
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I use the noguchi filing system ( http://www.lise.jp/noguchi.html ). Basically, it's just an LRU for documents. No categories, no filtering, just insert everything on the left side (whether it's new or something you just accessed). I think
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I don't have experience with start-ups, so the question "How much money is left in the bank?" was interesting to me. I understand that it's important for potential employees to know the start-up can afford to pay their salary for more than
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by johnswamps 16y ago
The title is misleading. The article is about what not to write in an e-mail if you want to minimize the chance of the e-mail being discovered by law enforcement if you/your company ever end up in court.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
For comparison, my experience with slicehost: I lost my credit card and got a new one, so the charges from slicehost were bouncing because they had my old number. They sent me several e-mails about it but I wasn't checking the e-mail accoun
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by johnswamps 16y ago
FWIW this is actually the old course website, the new one is https://courseware.stanford.edu/pg/courses/3524 , though I'm not sure if you can see it without being logged in and being off-campus. When I took the course last fall we didn't h
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by johnswamps 16y ago
The saying is much older than that. "Art is never finished, only abandoned" seems to be widely attributed to de Vinci and "A poem is never finished, only abandoned" to Paul Valery.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Their site says "This is an educational initiative and not a profit-making venture." Sounds like a great way to get some experience in startups. They get to meet with a lot of well-connected VCs and put them in touch with some smart Stanfor
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Yes, it will be returned to normal tomorrow
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Someone changed the title, so if the parent comment doesn't make sense to you, the original title was: Never Read Another Resume By Jason Fried
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I wonder if the error was due to the huge increase in orders they must have gotten after their 80% off sale a month and half ago?
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Yep, it's pretty neat. If you're familiar with haskell (I'm not sure if haskell invented it, but it's probably the most well-known example) this will be familiar to you. For example, factorial could be written as: fac 0 = 1 fac n = n * fac(
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Hm, now that you mention it my dreams may have been more vivid recently, but I wouldn't consider that a negative.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I recently changed my sleep cycle by a few hours. I bought a Zeo and started turning off the computer an hour before going to sleep. During that time I'd read, do some stretches, brush my teeth, meditate, take 3mg of melatonin, then go to s
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I was just repeating aditya's phrase. It's a common expression and does not literally mean that you have deposited the money in a bank.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
That does not ignore inflation. You need just 7% returns on your investments (stock market has historically returned around 10%, but some of your money will be in lower return assets) to be able to take out 4% per year (pre-tax). 1M would b

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